CasualSimulation
Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
The first hour is a test
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 4h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 80% of owners
Steam reviews 76% positive of 1,730
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (51%); after 7h it's 1 in 5 (19%).
- Fully opens up by hour 4.
- The opening is criticised more than in 79% of games we track.
- 80% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,741 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 13.8h for positive, 8.3h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (80.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (37)
- And A New Day Begins Complete day 1. 100%
- Snip Snip Prune a plant for the first time. 92%
- Help Wanted Complete a request. 92%
- Green Thumb Complete the tutorial. 80%
- There's More? Harvest a new seed variant for the first time. 67%
- Budding Gardener Plant 50 flowers. 58%
- Timeless Seating Sit on a bench. 58%
- Beaukay's Sell your first bouquet. 51%
- Master Crafter Craft 100 items 42%
- Restoration Maestro Rebuild the bridge. 37%
- Clean-up Maestro Clear the rubble. 35%
- Seasonal Shift Experience your first seasonal change. 33%
- Garden Variety Have a flower of each species in your garden simultaneously. 31%
- I'm Rich! Earn 50,000 florins in total. 29%
- Harvest Time Harvest 1000 seeds. 29%
- Sculptor Rookie Complete your first pavilion statue. 27%
- Pest Control Remove 100 pests. 27%
- Helping Hand Complete 50 requests. 23%
- Greenhouse Guru Unlock the greenhouse. 18%
- Tool Time Collect all of the tools. 15%
- Moisturize Me! Use watering tools 1000 times. 11%
- Hoarder Have 50 decoration items in your garden simultaneously. 10%
- Literary Odyssey Find all the books. 8.6%
- Cats. Pet. Yes. Pet the cat 50 times. 8.1%
- Sculptor Extraordinaire Complete all statues in the pavilion. 7.7%
- Seasoned Gardener Complete a year in a garden. 7.7%
- Snailed It! Stack a snail on top of another snail. 7.7%
- I Want It All! Complete the plant book. 7.5%
- A Promise Fulfilled Complete Robin's ToDo list. 7.0%
- Street Shenanigans Get 50 soda cans. 6.1%
- Gourd-geous Pumpkin Have all the pumpkins in the garden. 5.4%
- Koi-lect Them All! Make the fish appear in the pond. 5.1%
- Sky Is The Limit Reach the highest point in the garden. 4.6%
- Tools But Better Collect all tool variants. 3.7%
- Garden Architect Customize your garden 30 times. 3.5%
- Toadally Awesome Have all the frogs in your garden. 3.5%
- Gnome Sweet Gnome Have all the gnomes in your garden. 3.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.